is there any thread where we could post serial numbers of our Falcons? if there isn't any, maybe this one should be pinned!?

** and does anybody have clue what serial numbers represent? ** (and why serial on motherboard and bottom of case are different?? - should they be the same?? - maybe my case and motherboard are from different Falcons )

My Falcon numbers and board revision printed on motherboard:

CA401332-003 REV - D/C1992.Y 43602 007192

and serial from bottom case:

ATARI FALCON030 UK 4MBY 43702 2 004176

motherboard-t.jpg

bottom-t.jpg

btw does anybody know how many Falcons are made in total?

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Last edited by calimero on Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:55 am, edited 3 times in total.

Markus, that's highest number I've seen so far, my Falcons are crawling around #2000 and #4000. ;-) Anyone with a higher number? http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Ata ... _revisions suggests there's one with Y44902000977 (i.e. 09/1994) but this looks like an early C-Lab one, esp. judging from the S/N.

Next close is #11738, i.e. Markus still wins. ;-)

EDIT: (some time spent on googling later...) I couldn't find any Falcon motherboard starting with 12000 and later, hmm. Maybe the numbers of 20k+ are hugely overestimated?

mikro wrote:Markus, that's highest number I've seen so far, my Falcons are crawling around #2000 and #4000. Anyone with a higher number? http://www.atari-wiki.com/index.php/Ata ... _revisions suggests there's one with Y44902000977 (i.e. 09/1994) but this looks like an early C-Lab one, esp. judging from the S/N.

Next close is #11738, i.e. Markus still wins.

EDIT: (some time spent on googling later...) I couldn't find any Falcon motherboard starting with 12000 and later, hmm. Maybe the numbers of 20k+ are hugely overestimated?

It doesn't have to be lie -- maybe they sold it to someone and they didn't sell it afterwards. That would also mean that there's a pile of 2000-3000 Falcons somewhere. ;) Also don't forget the "industrial Falcons", who knows, maybe the last batch went directly to the USPS?

Just recently I read that they really did order new boards. It was a Taiwan company, called EFA (you can like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/EFA-Manu ... 4805562164 :D), same company which had manufactured Lynx and Falcons for Atari. Also, the new S/Ns (new year of production + zeroed) would suggest that.

mikro wrote:Just recently I read that they really did order new boards. It was a Taiwan company, called EFA (you can like them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/EFA-Manu ... 4805562164), same company which had manufactured Lynx and Falcons for Atari. Also, the new S/Ns (new year of production + zeroed) would suggest that.

So it seems around the end of year 1994 C-Lab had indeed ordered a new batch of Falcon motherboards (and casings+keyboards) which got delivered sometime around 08/1995. Until then they had been selling original Atari units, if I understood the article correctly.